Amazon Nova Pro vs GPT-5.6
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at cost efficiency (82 vs 70 on our capability index).
- •GPT-5.6 is meaningfully stronger at coding (94 vs 68).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 84% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | 5 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | 30 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5.6 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Sol) | - | 88.8% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Terra) | - | 82.5% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Luna) | - | 84.3% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | - | 88.8 |
| ExploitBench | - | Competitive with Anthropic Mythos Preview |
| ExploitGym | - | Significant improvements |
| GeneBench v1 | - | Not announced |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Amazon Nova Pro if...
- →You are building on AWS and want native Bedrock integration
- →You need multimodal understanding of images or video plus text
- →You want a cost-balanced general model with a large context
- →You need enterprise controls: data residency, service tiers, prompt caching
Choose GPT-5.6 if...
- →You want to standardize on one model generation but route requests across cost/quality tiers
- →You are an approved preview partner exploring the newest OpenAI capabilities
- →Workloads spanning agentic coding, knowledge work, and research where tier flexibility helps